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Micheli, M., Les legumineuses de rEcuador et de la Nouvelle-Grenade de la 



collection de Ed. Andre. (Journal de Botanique. 1892. No. 7. p. 117 — 124.) 

 Miegeville, l'Abbe, Etüde de quelques plantes des Pyrenees centrales. 



(Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France. Tome XXXVIII. 1892. p. 32 



—39.) 

 More, A. Gr., Cuscuta Epithymum in Ireland. (Journal of Botany. Vol. XXX. 



1892. No. 349. p. 14.) 



— — , Silene maritima growing inland. (1. c. No. 351. p. 87.) 



— — , Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea at Low Level. (1. c. p. 88.) 



Mueller, Baron von, Description of New-Australian plants, vvith occasional 

 other annotations. [Continued.] (Extra print from the Victorian Naturalist. 

 Maren 1892.) 



Phyllanthus hypospodius. 



Tall, throughout glabrous ; petioles quite short; leaves very large, 

 almost distiehous, chartaeeous, ovate- or elliptic-lanceolar, thinly venulated, 

 on the surface dull-green, beneath whitish-grey ; staminate flowers minute, 

 on very short pedicels, each Cluster aecompanied by one or two pistillate flowers 

 of larger size; outer sepals almost ovate, inner more orbicular and sligbtly 

 longer; stamens six, their anthers roundish and neary as long as their 

 filaments; style hardly any ; stigmas three, channelled or flattened, 

 undivided, finally rigid ; fruit rather large, short-pedicellate, trigonous- 

 globular ; seeds oblique-nephroid, but also somewhat triangulär, smooth. 

 outside whitish and faintly marked by a palebrownish lineolation. 



On the Russell-River ; Stephen Johnson. 



Shrub, attaining a height of 14 feet. Leaves to 4 inches long and 

 2 broad, flat, entire. Sepals pale-coloured. Anthers disconnected. Ripe 

 fruit measuring l /s iueh diametrically, and quite as high as broad, 

 many times longer than its sepals, brownish outside. Seeds nearly 

 1 Jg inch long. 



The whiteness on the lower page of the leaves as well as their 

 form and size has our new species in common with the Sumatran 

 P. hypoleucus, of which however the carpologic characteristics are very 

 different. 



Wendlandia basistaminea . 



Branchlets appressedly almost sericiously pubescent; leaves on short 

 petioles or almost sessile, chartaeeous, mostly ovate-lanceolar, short- 

 acuminate, at the base rounded-blunt, above nearly glabrous, beneath 

 particularly along the costules and venules beset with very short hairlets; 

 stipules almost deltoid, incised at the apex, soon deeiduous; panicles with 

 cymous or fasciculate flowers, appressedly short-pubescent ; lobes of the 

 calyx deltoid-semilanceolar ; corolla-tube about thrice as long as the 

 calyx-lobes, sparingly puberulous inside, sligbtly constricted at the upper 

 end ; corolla-lobes nearly glabrous, not much shorter than the tube ; 

 stamens fixed close to the base of the corolla and nearly as long as its 

 tube, completely enclosed, as well as the style glabrous ; dehiscence of 

 fruit more reatlily loculicidal than septicidal ; seeds minute, ovate, outside 

 brown and reticular-rough. 



On Russell's River ; Stephen Johnson. 



Leaves simply opposite, to 5 inches long, to l 3 /4 inches broad, flat, 

 paler and offen brownish beneath. Panicle terminal, inclusive of the 

 peduncle seldom above 2 inches long. Pedicels to V s inch long, but often 

 much shorter. Bracts minute, linear-seinilanceolar. Corolla hardly V 4 inch 

 long, its lobes five, oval, distinctly imbricate, but only slightty twisted 

 before expansion. Filaments very short. Anthers eomparatively large, 

 fixed above the finally bi-lobed base, upwards narrowly ellipsoid. Fruit 

 about 1 jn inch long and nearly as broad, sligbtly protrudiug beyond the 

 calyxtube, short-pubescent at the suramit, Placentaries expanded into 

 two narrow divaricate plates. The blunt-based leaves, the short panicle 

 with flowers more conspicuously pedicellate and the corolla-tube thickest 

 towards the middle distinguishes this species already froin the majority 

 of its tongeners, whereas the Situation of the stamens separates at ouce 

 the Australian one from all others, unless — as in W. psyeltotroides — a 



